The Skies Belong to Us

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Selected as a Top Ten Book of the Year by Dwight Garner, New York Times A Slate Staff Pick of 2013 A Google Play Best Book of 2013 A KQED Best Book of 2013 This material, naturally a great yarn, is handled exceedingly well... Koerner has a rare empathy, and by acknowledging the fullness of [this] strange story, he suggests a deeper truth about the nature of extremism. - New York Times Book Review Such pure pop storytelling that reading it is like hearing the best song of summer squirt out of the radio. Both the author and his subjects are so audacious that they frequently made me laugh out loud. -Dwight Garner, New York Times Brilliantly evoking the atmosphere of the era with its bubbling racial tensions, Vietnam War disillusionment, and marijuana fug, The Skies Belong To Us weaves a vivid retelling of America's longest-distance hijacking and its globe-spanning, stranger-than-fiction aftermath with the history of this most mediagenic of crimes... As The Skies Belong To Us so entertainingly and insightfully demonstrates, even a recent historical era can seem not merely like a different time, but like a different planet. - The Daily Beast The free-wheeling, hijacking-crazy days of the 1960s and early '70s come to life vividly in Brendan I. Koerner's evocative new page-turner The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking. With abundant research and a sharp eye for the absurd, Koerner transports us to a time long before anyone thought of crashing planes into buildings, when people took over airplanes for all sorts of weird reasons that were only occasionally political. - Los Angeles Times Thrums with the revolutionary, paranoid energy of the era. - Boston Globe Koerner's book is original and riveting, relying on extensive information derived from Freedom of Information Act requests, newspaper reports, andn